The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-15

may aIpear-for, mind, that which is now
being related is literally true--exhumed two
stones about four feet in length the exact
counterparts of each other. and roughly
hewn in the shape of huge arrow-headS.
These two stones Mr.. Stuckey, who still
resides on this same farm, preserved for
years in his front yard as ornaments: in fact,
kept them until this day, but climatic
changes and much handling have
destroyed much OF their original sem
blance
The Spiritualists regarded this discovery
as a certain omen Of the ultimate success of
their search, and they at once erected a wind
lass and sunk a well through the rocks to the
depth of one hundred and forty feet, and at
which, IN those times, was an enormous eX-
pense.
There they worked assiduously all through
the hay autumn days, while nightly at the
rude hostelrie in the homely little village
they held their weird seances. Mr..
Stuckey then a mere lad, was permitted
one day to descend the shaft on the hill
top to depth of one hundred feet, and
was on more than one occasion a witness at
their
GHoSTLY CoNvoCATIONs
at night, these being held as | said before,
in the village inn which was kept by
Erastus Stuckey, the father of the gentle
man named.
When the treasure-hunters had reached
depth of one hundred and forty feet they
were ON a level with the surface Of the Hook
hooking, and, striking water, were com
PEELED though reluctantly, to desist at their
supelstltlouS labOrs. They spent several days
thereafter, however, in eXhorting and preach
ing Ill the village, but failing incontinently
to make converts to their belief out of the
unsophisticated yet intelligent villagers or
the good people of the quiet countryside,
wbnln t1i,r =
board bill with all the eclat of modern artists
III this line, and, like Arabs, silently stole
away
The wrathy old landlord, however, fol
lowed Mr.. Kendall to his lair in Newark,
and, under threats of exposure and prOsecu-
ton, secured the account he held against the
entire party.
RHODODENDRON HILL.
But let me tell you something about this
hill, known as RhOdodendrOn, as it is to-day.
Reaching its base, by a devious route
through pine woods and laurel thickets, YOU
start right into its very bowels, it seems, by
means of one of the hundreds of narrow
assures, with which the mount is riven and
rent from top to bottom and on all sides.
Then you go, now up. now down, now right,
now left, then straight ahead then round
again, through winding galleries Of grand
yet grueSome and Cammy solid rock, I'M
summer day Through a tenebrous labyrinth
of this wOndrOus natural architecture you
make your way, trOdding ground but sci
dom touched by human foot, until suddenly
you are brought to a halt at a singular-lOok-
ing crevice which abruptly ends ahead a few
yards in the massive and disheveled rocks
Peermg down this steep incline, nothing
but baCkness greetS the strained vision
That darkness is the SpiritualiSts' well You
can throw stones and sticks down into it and
hear them as they rattle and rumble against
the mural sides until, with a splash they
strike the water two hundred feet below.
The scene off, while gloomy and chilling, is
still
REMARKABLY PICTURESQUE AND ENCHANT-
ING
as one stands on the summit on the north
side OF the hill. There a rocky facade falls
below for the distance of nearly three hun
dred feet without break shelving or lodge,
and at its base can be traced, midst the dark
green of the low-growing laurel, the silvery
Slnuosities of small rivulet, which goes
gurgling and purlng away until it is swal-
lowed up i'll the blue bosom of the Hook
hooking. The waters of this stream are de
lghtfuly pure and cold. and along its banks
'mong the rocks, covered with their trailing
moses and other plants of cryptogam!an
character, blooms the most wonderful rhOdo-
dendrons known in this or any other coun-
try, great lustrOus blossoms six to eight
inches in diameter, and white as the driven
snow.
Rhododendron hill runs off into narrow
ridge from this point to the westward end
ing i'll a series of ancient Notifications
tumuli, mounds and e8rthworks in many
different shapes and forms, and from when
many valuable and interesting relics have
been gathered
When rosy June comes round again,
Providence willing, and memory serves me
properly, I'll send you a box of rhododen-
drons from this spot, such as are seldom seen
anywhere away from here
SANDY GRIswOLD